museum of the stone Age

The Neolithic period began around 6,000 years
ago when humans first settled down and began farming. They continued to
make tools and weapons from flint and some kinds of tool, such as
scrapers for preparing hides, stayed the same. But the Neolithic also
saw the introduction of new kinds of stone tool. First there was a
movement away from using microliths to make spears and arrows as
composite weapons and instead the universal adoption of flint arrow
heads. Second, the harvesting of grain required new tools such as
scythes and these were made from flint. Neolithic tools were often
retouched all over, by pressure flaking, giving a characteristic appearance and were often
laboriously polished, again giving them a distinctive look. Flake tools
continued to be made in the Neolithic, but they are often more crudely
made than earlier flake tools, like those shown below.